Southeast German Research Association

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The Südostdeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ( SODFG ) was an important institution in Eastern research . It was founded in Vienna in 1931 and was part of the Volksdeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (VFG). This was based primarily on three regional institutes, each specialized in a section of the "border area":

The SODFG was created in 1931 with the task of promoting research into regional and folk history and regional and folklore issues in the south-east German border regions and to bring representatives of the subjects involved together with representatives of the ethnic groups concerned and the Reich authorities interested in ethnicity issues . The research community was shaped by nationally conservative and ethnic ideas about history and politics. It was directed by the Austrian historian Otto Brunner . The aim of the research community was the scientific foundation of German policy concepts in the southeast of the German Reich . To this end, she translated foreign-language specialist literature as well as maps and statistics on the population situation in Southeast Central Europe and produced her own studies and memoranda.

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  • Martin Burkert: The Eastern Sciences in the Third Reich . Part 1: Between prohibition and tolerance. The difficult tightrope walk of the eastern sciences between 1933 and 1939 . Wiesbaden 2000 (Research on Eastern European History 55).
  • Michael Burleigh: Germany Turns Eastwards. A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich . Cambridge et al. 1988.
  • Gabriele Camphausen: The scientific historical research on Russia in the Third Reich 1933-1945 . Frankfurt / M. 1990 (European University Writings, Series 3: History and its Auxiliary Sciences 418), pp. 182–212.
  • Michael Fahlbusch: Science in the Service of National Socialist Politics? The “Volksdeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” from 1931–1945 . Baden-Baden 1999, pp. 178-247, 547-590.
  • Ingo Haar: Historian under National Socialism. German history and the “national struggle” in the east . Göttingen 2000 (Critical Studies in History 143), pp. 150–306.

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